The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)

The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)
by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant

The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)
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Actor: Lucy Davis (II), Mackenzie Crook, Martin Freeman, Ricky Gervais
Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 450 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)

DVD Review: It's Quality
Summary: 5 Stars

This is awesome. Way better than the copy cat US series! Fantastic, a great look at British humor. Not all Americans will get this though. Fantastic!!! 5 Stars

DVD Review: Great Deal...One of the funniest and most original shows I've seen.
Summary: 5 Stars

I love comedy T.V. shows. Not really "sitcom" funny but more naturalistic shows like: Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Flight of the Conchords, etc. This show surpasses it's U.S. counterpart by a milestone. Ricky Gervais is hilarious in his character of David Brent. The cast is fantastic and the story is impeccable. However, nothing compares to the dramatic special that concludes the story. If you have a funny bone in your body, I suggest that you give this series a chance.

DVD Review: the original office
Summary: 5 Stars

The original British version of the Office is brilliant. I hear that it's nearing what the end of this 4th season of the American Office is like...uncomfortable at times. A must purchase for any true fan of the Office.

DVD Review: It's ok.
Summary: 4 Stars

I had anticipated a much more funnier show than it's American version. Maybe I've just grown much more attached to the American characters and I had higher expectations for the original characters. Over all I would say that it was entertaining.

DVD Review: Where's Monkey Alan?
Summary: 5 Stars

I was living in ENgland when this first came out. My husband and I avoided watching it at first because we thought it was really was a dumb-big-brother type reality show. Then, one evening, there was nothing else on except this show...it was the "training day" episode, and I swear to you, he and I did not stop laughing! We fell in love with this show from that point on and have never looked back!

We do watch the American Office which we like okay. It's no where near as brilliant as the original, so we don't compare the two. We're just glad Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are making money from it.

Description of The Office - The Complete Collection BBC Edition (First And Second Series Plus Special)

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/27/2005 Run time: 450 minutes
It feels both inaccurate and inadequate to describe The Office as a comedy. On a superficial level, it disdains all the conventions of television sitcoms: there are no punch lines, no jokes, no laugh tracks, and no cute happy endings. More profoundly, it's not what we're used to thinking of as funny. Most of the fervently devoted fan base watched with a discomfortingly thrilling combination of identification and mortification. The paradox is that its best moments are almost physically unwatchable. Set in the offices of a fictional British paper merchant, The Office is filmed in the style of a reality television show. The writing is subtle and deft, the acting wonderful, and the characters beautifully drawn: the cadaverous team leader Gareth (Mackenzie Crook); the monstrous sales rep, Chris Finch (Ralph Ineson); and the decent but long-suffering everyman Tim (Martin Freeman), whose ambition and imagination have been crushed out of him by the banality of ! the life he dreams uselessly of escaping. The show is stolen, as it was intended to be, by insufferable office manager David Brent, played by codirector-cowriter Ricky Gervais. Brent will become a name as emblematic for a particular kind of British grotesque as Basil Fawlty, but he is a deeper character. Fawlty is an exaggeration of reality, and therefore a safely comic figure. Brent is as appalling as only reality can be. --Andrew Mueller

The second series exceeded even the sky-high standards of the first. Indeed, it ventured beyond caricature and satire, touching on the very edge of darkness. Ricky Gervais is once again excruciatingly superb as David Brent, but in this series, Brent's to-the-camera assertions concerning his management qualities and executive capabilities are seriously challenged when the Slough and Swindon branches are merged and his former Swindon equivalent Neil (Patrick Baladi) takes over as area manager. To compensate, Brent cultivates his pathologically mistaken image of himself as an entertainer-motivator-comedian whose stage happens to be the workplace. Meanwhile, Tim, who can only maintain his sanity by teasing the priggish Gareth, continues to wrestle with his yearning for receptionist Dawn Tinsley (Lucy Davis), a sympathetic character persisting in a relationship with a man about whom she still maintains unspoken reservations. As ever, it's the awkward, reality TV-style pauses and silences, the furtive, meaningful and unmet glances across the emotional gulf of the open-plan office, that say it all here. As for Brent, his own breakdown is prefaced by a moment of hideous hilarity--an impromptu office dance, a mixture of "Flashdance and MC Hammer" as Brent describes it, but in reality bad beyond description. Then, when his fate is sealed, he at last reveals himself in a memorable finale to perhaps the greatest British sitcom, besides Fawlty Towers, ever made. --David Stubbs

The brilliant and devastating comedy of The Office is brought to a satisfying conclusion in The Office Special, originally a two-part Christmas special on the BBC, set three years after the end of the faux-documentary's second season. The former office manager David (Ricky Gervais) now ekes out a desperate existence as an oblivious quasi-celebrity, making awkward, humiliating visits back to the office staff he still believes loves him. Gawky Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) has risen to manager and become a petty tyrant, while the sweet but snide Tim (Martin Freeman) continues to pine for former receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who fled to Florida with her fiance. When the documentary crew pays for Dawn to return for the holiday party, an unpredictable reunion looms ahead. The Office fuses scathing humor and genuine empathy, turning excruciating social discomfort into inspired satire. Fans will find this special rewarding in all respects. --Bret Fetzer

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